Last Week's PPP (Bo)

TT#350PPP - BO

[1] Upper-left is a photo-developing setup with developer tray, tongs, developer, and film-developing gismo. The kind of equipment you'd find in a darkroom, as in MAKAT CHOSHECH.

[2] Upper-right is a Megila and a Havdala candle, both saying the same thing. That thing is LAYEHUDIM HA'Y'TA ORA... This statement is similar to the Torah's statement in Parshat Bo (10:23), "...and to all of Bnei Yisrael there was light in their camp."

[An aside] Why, of all the p'sukim in the introduction to Havdala, do people listening to Havdala say LAYEHUDIM aloud before the Havdala-sayer says it? I heard from someone who says he heard from HaRav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt"l that the custom seems to have originated as an ignorant borrowing from Megilat Esther, where LAYEHUDIM is one of four p'sukim that the congregation says aloud. In other words, it doesn't really belong in Havdala.

(my addition) This does not mean that we change the Havdala custom; minhag is minhag (unless there is a halachic objection, which there isn't in this case). Another point, as long as I'm talking LAYEHUDIM: In Havdala, we add three words after the pasuk KEIN T'H'YEH LANU. People should realize that these are not part ofthe pasuk (everything else since HINEI KEIL... hve been p'sukim). Not only realize it, but pause between the pasuk and the 3-word request to HaShem.

[3] The snake equals the bottle of coke should be read right to left (general rule for PPP is that puzzle components are bidirectional) as in the Haftara (Yirmiyahu 46:22), KOLAH K'NACHASH (puns are tempting sometimes).

[4] Binoculars are MISHKEFET in Hebrew. Sounds a bit like MASHKOF, the lintel of a door-frame. The two vertical pillars of the binocs have a SHIN on them, making them like Mezuzot. So we have the two doorposts and the lintel, where the blood of the first Korban Pesach was dabbed to identify the house as a Jewish home tobe passed over during Makat B'chorot.

[5] Across the bottom is a bowling ball, a bull, and a man rowing a boat. That's BOWL-PAR (Hebrew)-ROW. If you read it right, you get BO EL PAR'O.

TT350PPP REPORT
Many great and good solution sets were submitted, but I need more time to organize them for the report. So the report that should be here will appear, IY"H, next week.
And no PPP this week. Sorry. It's been a very busy week. (The website will have a single element PPP)

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